Problems of acquiring academic skills in children with learning disability

Abstract EN

This paper investigated problems of acquiring academic skills in children with learning disability.

Children having learning disabilities do not acquire academics skills as fast as normal children.

The learning disabilities dealt with include dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia and dyspraxia.

The researchers predicted that learning disabled children fail in acquiring academic skills, and that heredity and social/or family problems contribute to learning disability and also that the rate of learning disability is not the same among the two genders.

The researchers carried out a field research in selected public basic schools that offer special education in Erbil city.

The aim was to investigate closely the kinds of disability each child manifested and the factors that increased the degree of disability and also to find out which of the two genders is more liable to manifest learning disability.

The results of the research supported the predictions; Learning disabled children are unable to acquire academic skills properly.

Cases of the influence of heredity and social problems were detected.

The study also revealed that boys are more liable than girls to manifest learning disability.